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💬 Alabama Men's Golf wins National Championship (back to Back) beats Oklahoma State
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For those that didn't know, Alabama's assistant golf coach Mike McGraw was the Head Coach at Oklahoma State up until last year, Oklahoma State changed coaching staffs and Jay Seawell went after Mike. Huge pickup.
Some history on Oklahoma State's Golf Team, they have won 11 Team NC's, 8 Individual NC's, and been runner up in 16 Team NC's since 1958.
Good read on the McGraw story below.
Some history on Oklahoma State's Golf Team, they have won 11 Team NC's, 8 Individual NC's, and been runner up in 16 Team NC's since 1958.
Good read on the McGraw story below.
Here's an excellent read on Men's golf assistant coach, Mike McGraw.
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Mike McGraw was unemployed, officially, for less than a week.
Dumped by Oklahoma State after two subpar seasons, one of college golf’s winningest coaches, one of its most respected voices, hit the waiver wire last June. Within a day, he was listening to a pitch from his longtime friend, Alabama coach Jay Seawell.
Like so many of his own recruits, McGraw verbally committed almost instantly.
The team to beat at next week’s NCAA Championship is the same one that hoisted the hardware last year: No. 1 Alabama. It’s an embarrassment of riches, really.
They have the swagger of being the defending NCAA champions.
They have the steadiness of a rock-solid senior core.
They have an infusion of energy from adding the best freshman in the country.
And now, just to rub it in, they have an assistant coach with two national titles on his résumé (2000 as assistant, ’06 as head coach). Oh, and he’s also captured six Big 12 titles (three as a head coach) at Prairie Dunes, next week’s big-boy NCAA venue, a course McGraw figures he has seen about 60 times. Good luck to the rest of the 30-team field.
But the Mike McGraw who now dresses in crimson is nothing like the all-business, orange-clad leader who for eight seasons stalked the fairways in Stillwater. That man is gone, for good.
THIS NEVER WAS about job titles, status or egos. You don’t bring in a man with more experience, more national titles, more tournament wins and more clout if you’re worried about that nonsense. Jay Seawell? He wants to win, and win big, so acquiring McGraw’s services was a no-brainer.
Yes, Alabama needed an experienced coach for the older players, the guys who have sacrificed so much for the program. But Seawell also knew that McGraw could help groom the younger players, to build them into week-in, week-out contributors, to ensure the future is as bright as the present.
Since the beginning of this partnership, Seawell has never referred to McGraw as his “assistant” coach. He knows better. That’s Mike McGraw, one of our coaches, he’ll say. Basically, now, they’re co-head coaches. Egos? Please.
“It goes to show you that Coach Seawell will do whatever it takes to win,” Alabama junior Tom Lovelady said.
Seawell called McGraw 24 hours after he was fired. He was worried that his friend of 15-plus years might consider his offer demeaning.
“I’d love for you to come work with us and be a part of what we’re doing,” Seawell said.
“I can’t think of anything I’d rather do,” McGraw replied. “Roll Tide."
Seawell had one stipulation, though. He wanted – no, needed – McGraw to return to his roots, to be the patient seventh-grade social studies teacher, the enthusiastic high school golf coach, the passionate junior golf director he was years ago.
“That’s the guy I want,” Seawell told him.
And that part of McGraw had been lost, chipped away after years of intense recruiting and mounting expectations. By last summer, he was a shell of the man he once was, of who he wanted to be.
A lot more here from GolfChannel.com
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Mike McGraw was unemployed, officially, for less than a week.
Dumped by Oklahoma State after two subpar seasons, one of college golf’s winningest coaches, one of its most respected voices, hit the waiver wire last June. Within a day, he was listening to a pitch from his longtime friend, Alabama coach Jay Seawell.
Like so many of his own recruits, McGraw verbally committed almost instantly.
The team to beat at next week’s NCAA Championship is the same one that hoisted the hardware last year: No. 1 Alabama. It’s an embarrassment of riches, really.
They have the swagger of being the defending NCAA champions.
They have the steadiness of a rock-solid senior core.
They have an infusion of energy from adding the best freshman in the country.
And now, just to rub it in, they have an assistant coach with two national titles on his résumé (2000 as assistant, ’06 as head coach). Oh, and he’s also captured six Big 12 titles (three as a head coach) at Prairie Dunes, next week’s big-boy NCAA venue, a course McGraw figures he has seen about 60 times. Good luck to the rest of the 30-team field.
But the Mike McGraw who now dresses in crimson is nothing like the all-business, orange-clad leader who for eight seasons stalked the fairways in Stillwater. That man is gone, for good.
THIS NEVER WAS about job titles, status or egos. You don’t bring in a man with more experience, more national titles, more tournament wins and more clout if you’re worried about that nonsense. Jay Seawell? He wants to win, and win big, so acquiring McGraw’s services was a no-brainer.
Yes, Alabama needed an experienced coach for the older players, the guys who have sacrificed so much for the program. But Seawell also knew that McGraw could help groom the younger players, to build them into week-in, week-out contributors, to ensure the future is as bright as the present.
Since the beginning of this partnership, Seawell has never referred to McGraw as his “assistant” coach. He knows better. That’s Mike McGraw, one of our coaches, he’ll say. Basically, now, they’re co-head coaches. Egos? Please.
“It goes to show you that Coach Seawell will do whatever it takes to win,” Alabama junior Tom Lovelady said.
Seawell called McGraw 24 hours after he was fired. He was worried that his friend of 15-plus years might consider his offer demeaning.
“I’d love for you to come work with us and be a part of what we’re doing,” Seawell said.
“I can’t think of anything I’d rather do,” McGraw replied. “Roll Tide."
Seawell had one stipulation, though. He wanted – no, needed – McGraw to return to his roots, to be the patient seventh-grade social studies teacher, the enthusiastic high school golf coach, the passionate junior golf director he was years ago.
“That’s the guy I want,” Seawell told him.
And that part of McGraw had been lost, chipped away after years of intense recruiting and mounting expectations. By last summer, he was a shell of the man he once was, of who he wanted to be.
A lot more here from GolfChannel.com
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